October 21, 2009
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Designing for the Social Web
Web publishers are constantly looking to increase traffic, usability, and interaction with their sites. The new Facebook Connect allows for Facebook users to simply click a button to be able to comment on a site, or interact with the site. This sounds like a great idea up front. Take an extremely popular social network with millions of users and hook that into your site and the possibilities are endless.
Publishers need to be careful though. While the thought of adding millions of users to a site may seem good, there is a major downside to Facebook Connect that a local user system does not have. Anonymity. » Read more: Publishers be Careful with Facebook Connect
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August 24, 2009
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When some people start out in a new language, they are in it for the long haul. Other people sometimes just need to touch on it without getting into the details. PHP is one of those languages where you can do things in a quick and dirty way without getting into the details. I have written a simple class for the kind of person that just wants to get a few things done quickly that is familiar with VBScripting. The class is mainly a wrapper class that allows you to perform VBScript style methods on strings in PHP. For instance, you can use VBScript::Left($string, $length) instead of using PHP’s substr($string, 0, $length). Enjoy!
» Read more: VBScript String Methods in a Simple PHP Class
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August 12, 2009
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The C++ IAccessible interface offers a handful of methods that allow you to gather information or perform actions on an object. Each of these methods are well documented on MSDN, but it is up to the creator of an object to implement them correctly. In this article, I’ll be talking about a couple of the inconsistencies you may run into when using these methods due to improper implementations and a lack of restrictions on how they should be implemented.
» Read more: Microsoft Active Accessibility Methods and Inconsistent Implementations
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